Benita Epstein

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Benita L. Epstein is a productive gag cartoon for magazines, greeting cards, websites and newspapers. He is a regular contributor to the Six Chix comic strip, distributed by King Features Syndicate.

Prior to becoming a cartoonist, Epstein holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Entomology. In addition to his studies of autism, lung surfactants, photosynthesis, purine metabolism, and yellow fever mosquitoes, he helps her husband in ecological field research on islands around the world.

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Cartoon

As a cartoonist, she focuses on women, relationships, business, medicine, science, travel industry, Jewish lifestyle, vacations, professors, and education. His cartoons have been published in hundreds of publications, including Barron's , Better Home and Gardens , Harvard Business Review , The New Yorker , Reader's Digest , US Weekend and The Wall Street Journal . For Creator Syndicate, he created the Daily Drawing feature Drawing Crowd , which runs from January 2002 to June 2003. In 2006, he described the process of working:

I started feeding my brain with newspapers, books, TV news, Internet news, listening to conversations. Then I write, usually in the morning. Gags came out of nowhere. Even if it's silly or stupid or unusable, I write it down. I can edit it later. I let it boil. After a day, a week, sometimes years, I go back, improve my writing and choose some jokes to draw. Sometimes I brainstorm via email with other cartoonists. It works great, and I never remember when one of us wanted someone else's idea; so we never really stepped on each other's feet... I made a primitive and rough outline of the people, the main characters, in basic settings on a lousy copy paper with a regular pencil. Then I put a nice fine HP laser paper over the sketch and put it on the light table. For the crowd scene, the bar, the vegetation, the beach and the lab, I drew directly on the finished paper without sketches because I drew quickly, and the background scene was lined loosely. I use a Pigma pen and a brush, sometimes a Sharpie or a black calligraphy pen. Then I scan the image into Photoshop. If a company wants an original document, I would be incising ink on a nice watercolor paper and adding a gray or watercolor. But in Photoshop I colored the image using a Wacom tablet. If I'm on vacation, I can draw tracing paper and save it for scanning later, or copying cartoons, sending mail to various companies, then scanning them when I get home. I want every cartoon to be scanned, so I can draw them on the spot and print a printed copy or send a PDF. I've been sending stuff through PDF for years around the world, and I think it gives me an edge over many cartoonists who concentrate on the regular mainstream market here in the US.

In 2009, he told interviewer Scott Nickel, "I have a graphic form of synestheses in which letters and numbers are considered color, others are physicist Richard Feynman, Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov."

Epstein has provided a demonstration of images to adults who have developed disabilities and other disabled students. She lives in Redding, California with her husband, stepson and their little dog, Harley.

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Awards

The National Cartoonists Society nominated Epstein four times for Best Movie Gag Cartoonist and twice for Best Greeting Card Cartoonist.

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Bibliography

• Epstein, Benita. Sharks Loan Interlibrary and Seedy Rom: Cartoons from Libraryland (McFarland, 1997)
• Epstein, Benita. Jahure Self: Cartoons for Doctors and Patients (McFarland, 1999)
• Epstein, Benita. Small Round Things Science: Cartoons of Scientists (McFarland, 2000)
• Donnelly, Lisa. Funny Woman: New Yorker Largest Female Cartoonist and Their Cartoon (Prometheus, 2005)

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References

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External links

• Official site
• Stripper's Guide Blog
• GreenGo
• David Wasting Paper: Cartoon Survey

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